This looks pretty serious little sister is really giving her all
and she has good reason to be serious because she thinks she's writing.
Well she is writing using one of the earliest forms of writing known to man to
express something she has on her mind.
Writing is an important art and that this little girl
and millions of other small children expect to be successful
when they grow up they have to learn to write clearly and rapidly
and this is the first step little sister is making a very hard job of it because
this is hard work for her it would be hard work for all of us if we had to think
consciously as little children do of every move our hand in our make as we write
writing would be almost impossible if we had to think every time a muscle
contracted are relaxed.
Every time and change direction for a curve or to push
or pull to form a letter just try it yourself sometime in front of a
mirror.
Fortunately it doesn't take long for any of us with the help of our teachers to
learn to write rapidly legibly
and easily we learn how to
make marks on paper the two.
Well
but we're thinking about the tell others how we feel about them transferring our
thoughts without a spoken word we can write notes on what we're doing
that can be read many years from now
and we can use the magic of writing to send our thoughts to friends in any part of
the world yet each of us started out where little children start by drawing
pictures
and the childish drawings are only a little different from the picture writing of
many thousands of years ago this ancient picture writings scratched with a bit of
playing on a piece of slate tells of a battle with a mammoth picture writing did
well enough for recording a simple fact.
But it could never be used for a clear expression of a thought or an idea.
While some people were still recording of dance with pictures the ancient Egyptian
developed a form of writing called hieroglyphics
that was capable of expressing everything
that could be told by the spoken word the Egyptians also wrote in
pictures but now each picture stood for the sound of a syllable.
This was a big improvement
and it was made tactical bar every day use by him to me were writing the read write
down the Polish McLaren's and on which they wrote
but the pirates from which we get our word paper was very expensive
and the read brush wore out quickly
and had to be replaced this kind of writing was slow because each character had to
be carefully drawn it was all Nomar do read
and write because so many different pictures were needed to express every syllable
in the language with the passage of time the Egyptians went to a nearby a
landmine comma and Democrats.
Jim
and from the surrounding desert they hired the to right to help with this mining the
steerage found it was necessary to keep accounts of the work they did
and the pay that was due them
but Egyptian writing was much too complicated told probably with the help of a
friendly Egyptian scribe the derides developed the world's first pure alphabet.
Their first letter was a crudely drawn head of an ox in their language an ox was
called an Elf which we spelled H L B H M.
So this picture stood for the sound of H.
Their second letter was drawn in the form of the courtyard route which they called
them. Tell me eighty though this letter was given the sound of our letter B.
From the deride names of these two letters element that came our word out for
that there is much resemblance here to our age and the
but in just a minute you see what happened the change business needs called the
beginning of the first alphabet
and business activity called the alphabet to spread the been Asians descend into
the to right with a traveling salesman of their day in their great ships they
sailed over the Mediterranean trading with the people who lived on a show
or carrying their version of the Spirit alphabet to their Greek customers
and the Greeks made changes in the letters
that the Phoenicians brought to make of the Venetian out and stood on a seat.
They took just the nation that
and changed it to parents to all through the alphabet they were unifying of each
character but cutting straight lines wherever they could this was big.
It was most of the writing material it lacked to have it in the style of the hard
stone
and the chisel made the cutting of her very difficult rapid slow comfortable writing
was still many centuries away in time the Greeks became the great
world trade and with them to Rome
when their alphabet the Romans in their turn changed the alphabet until a became
very much like the twenty six old characters we used today
or thousands of years the world with them writing only in capital letters
but with the invention of the reed pen the Romans began another chain the reed then
made it easy to move across the Paris without stopping at the end of each letter
over the first time letters were joined together and writing was much faster
but in connecting the letters their appearance was changed and
that was the beginning of our small letter
the next big change came in the Middle Ages
and again the tools used in writing had an influence on the change
manuscripts then were being written on calfskin which was called Bella from the
same root the gave us the word veal
and the writing was done with quill usually made from the wing feathers of deal
with these expensive
and the barrier writing materials than writing became of fine art
but it was very slow
and these heavy fancy letters were also extremely hard to read
and over the quill pen.
And was the best writing tool available it wore out quickly
and was easily broken with the passage of more centuries the affairs of the world
and the end of the more convenient writing to more speed in which ability paper was
now comparatively cheap
and gradually the quill was abandoned in favor of the new steel band even before
the American Revolution the you peons were being made by hand and friends
and this better writing to began to have an effect on the kind of writing people
you gradually there came in to use a new method of handwriting an elaborate
style with many parishes and a scroll.
This was pastor
and easier to read than the manuscript writing of the Middle Ages
but each letter still had to be carefully drawn
when people tried to make these fancy letters in a hurry. This is what happened.
Writing tools were still far from the one thing the ink used at
that time quickly corroded depend point this lead to the manufacture of gold band
points with very elegant hold the gold points didn't corrode
but they were so expensive
that most people kept on using the Steelmen
and in spite of all the years that it since the invention of writing.
There was still the UN's our problem of convenience and there's no time to lose.
Mr Jenks this issue is being snapped up by some of the biggest investors in the
country.
Mr Bradford I never thought I'd live to see the day
when I'd be investing in a railroad you're doing a live thing the world is changing
rapidly. Everyone's demanding more and more speed and everything.
The smart ones the ones who get in on the ground floor are going to make the big
props. Yes I think I agree with you all.
If you have something for me to sign onto it now. Excellent.
Mr Jenkins you'll never regret this
now. And now I will have to postpone our business the game has dried up.
Not at all Mr Jenkins not at all.
Here's a pen
and here's the here
was the ink Yazid pretty easy to see why many attempts
were made to develop a pen
that would carry its own supply of veins in one of these early efforts the
param got it. Shot of writing fluid from a medicine dropper.
This worked well enough at times but often
when the pan went dry the medicine dropper was someplace else.
No medicine driver knowing knowing.
Well I suppose it was pretty hard to keep your temper when things like
that happened.
Then along came the idea of letting the pan carry its own medicine dropper a slit
was made in the barrel.
So that when a coin was poised and the rubber sack was pressed and
when it was released the rubber sack filled with ink. This worked all right too.
Until Well maybe you guessed
that even
after thousands of years of writing progress.
That's more or less the way things work then one day
and I would jeweller took the step that made the fountain pen a practical tool.
What he did was to put a lever on the barrel to do the job of the coin
that was too often missing.
This was the foreign word step
that brings us up to the present in this story of that twenty six old characters
and the tools
that have influenced their development today the fountain ban like every other
improved writing tool in history is causing changes in the way we write making
it easier faster and better adding to the permanence of writing.
Let's take a closer look at this tool
that has resulted from so many centuries of progress at first glance there doesn't
seem to be much to it.
This is a chamber to hold the NG with a lever develop this feed system carries the
ink from the supply chamber to the band point.
This is the gold pen point
that does the actual writing down there
and use a plunger instead of the lever for failing.
Through small
but continual improvement in design the modern fountain pen is the cleanest
and most convenient tool ever developed for permanent handwriting.
For example how is a Pen designed so
that the ink will not leak out into your pocket or onto your fingers.
The answer is in the large size of the feed chamber.
When the air inside the pan is expanded by the heat of the hand
or body the ink has plenty of room to go instead of flowing out on your hand
or into your pocket the modern pan can go a long time between
drinks and to get the very best out of it.
There is an expert way of filling a pan just open and close the lever.
But then let the points stay in the riding fluid fault
and seconds with the plunger type filler. It's a little different.
You might think of when the plunger is pulled out the pan would fail
but you see it doesn't happen that way. Well then what's the trick.
Just watch that the goal point is immersed completely in the writing fluid
and the plunger is processed
and prone several times this place is out everything
and at the same time create a strong vacuum then push the plunger
and wait for ten seconds.
So the pen can drink its fill hours about
and then design so the ink flows smoothly without interruption at exactly the rate
you need it actually without knowing it.
You yourself control of flow by hand measuring the exact amount depending on how
fast you write this fluid control works by what is known as capillary action
capillary action sounds a little complicated.
But all I could die about and then depend on it.
An old fashioned lamp makes it easy to wonder stand a kerosene lamp burns because
on oil.
Climbs up the wake from the bowl the oil is carried up the way by a capillary
action in the small fires of the cloth This principle has been applied to all
modern fountain pens.
But in the place of a wig the fountain pen has grooves in the most highly developed
fluid control the writing fluid gravels down the inside of the feed rises to the
piers and later the point
and then down the point then as the anchor on the point is used up capillary action
regulated by your own individual speed of writing brings price fluid to take its
place. Don't no matter how fast you write your fountain pen can keep up with you.
In fact the fastest handwriting in the world today is done with fountain pens.
I believe he is the kind of them ploy.
We need here
but since I want to be absolutely sure I ask him to come back again next week.
Thanks a lot for sending a man. Regards and so forth.
That's all for now.
Simpson just as everyone in the world is different from everyone else.
No two people in the world. Right exactly alike.
No one else in the world writes the way you do it's something
that marks you as different even before your very special letter to
that varies special person is opened that special person knows it's from you.
Each person's handwriting is so individual.
Even strangers can tell who the writer is handwriting experts can identify people
as a zillion as fingerprint experts do can identify people by their signatures
alone a bank clerk will cash a check because he recognizes the signature
all oh he may never have seen the deposit or
and perhaps your teacher has never met your father
but chinos his signature individual differences in handwriting make
possible many of the activities upon which the world depends.
And because writing is so important people form opinions of you by the way you
write even now your handwriting is having its effect on you for example
scribbled written work makes it difficult for teachers to concentrate on what
you've written
but if you write clearly the writing doesn't have to be deciphered
and all of the teacher's attention can be given to your expression of what you've
learned today as throughout history.
Writing is influenced by the kind of writing tools used for one thing good than is
important because it should be alive time investment
and if you find it hard to write clearly and comfortably.
It may be because the pan you have doesn't fit your writing style.
So if you show your handwriting to a store
that carries fine found in vans you can find out what point is best for you
a pen point can be found as to your particularly style of writing the feel
of the pan is a result of the hand grinding and tempering of the long wearing goal.
Point itself and the way it is shaped from tip to heel
and just as there is a pan point for every writing style.
There are pan points for different kinds of writing jobs
you've seen
and heard a very brief story of two great inventions are simple easy to use
alphabet and a tool
that has played such a big part in the use of these twenty six old characters
but even today in some parts of the WERE own handwriting is still complicated.
Here's a message for you in Chinese.
This is the way an Arab writes the same thing
while Welshman writes it this way and Galen.
Maybe you'd like to know why this message looks like inning.
Here it is.